As the recession persisted into 2009, the unemployment rate in the United States rose to ________, the highest rate since the recession of 2001-2002 and the second highest since the Great Depression

A) 5.5 percent B) 9.3 percent C) 17.6 percent D) 25.1 percent

B

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How will the exchange rate (foreign currency per dollar) respond to an increase in the relative rate of productivity growth in the United States in the long run?

A) Exchange rates will rise. B) Exchange rates will be unaffected by changes in the relative rate of productivity growth in the United States, both in the short run and in the long run. C) The exchange rate will be affected in the short run, but not in the long run. D) Exchange rates will fall.

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The nature of employer liability changed in the 19th century through judicial instrumentalism and had what effect?

(a) Reducing the risks and the costs of business, making business enterprise more daring and profitable than it would have been otherwise. (b) Increasing the risks and the costs of business, making business enterprise more daring and profitable than it would otherwise have been. (c) Continuing the older doctrine that employers could be found guilty of contributory negligence, thus increasing the employer's liability for worker injury. (d) None of the above were effects of the changes to the nature of employer liability.

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